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8.12.5 The <tt class="class">Attributes</tt> Interface 
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<tt class="class">Attributes</tt> objects implement a portion of the mapping
protocol, including the methods <tt class="method">copy()</tt>, <tt class="method">get()</tt>,
<tt class="method">has_key()</tt>, <tt class="method">items()</tt>, <tt class="method">keys()</tt>, and
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  Return the number of attributes.
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  Return the names of the attributes.
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  Returns the type of the attribute <var>name</var>, which is normally
  <code>'CDATA'</code>.
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  Return the value of attribute <var>name</var>.
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